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by splonk 1986 days ago
The malware app was also called "barcode scanner", published by "the space team", so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people just found the more popular zxing app on the store and left reviews in the wrong place. I had the malware version installed and went through the same process Cedric did to find out that an update they pushed around that time turned on the bad behavior.